The Press., 1887-09-15
-The ladies of the Coheregational ]

The ladies of the Congregational so cietY are requested to meet at the house o
 Mrs. Anthony Adams on Friday afternoon
 of this week at 3 o'clock, ..zs gsass I,,s-The first of series of ssno license
 meetings, under the management of tn Temple of Honor, will be held at the Uni versalist church, Stafford Hollow,s nex
 Sunday, at 3 D. m. It is none too. soon tl
 begin to awaken the best public sentimen
 of the town in favor of continuing the re fusal of Stafford to sanction and legaliz' drunkard making. zEf. a4,ses sg ..
 q --The Stafford Ice Co., storage build ing on the bank of the Warren Woolel Co.'s pond, Furnace avenue, burned a nearly midnight of Saturday last. Itwa' insured for $165, which amount was pait on Tuesday by Alvarado Howard. Altho about forty persons attended the fire nt alarm was given. The ice enclosed wa
 not iniured.a The company has a new ic, .house nearly completed, beside Dennis reservoir, near South-st. @ 7. s- 7zs az.#
 The Staffords and WiIimantics pla. their third game on the fair grounds o1 Saturday. The clubs are closely matched as previous games have p owed the disabil ity of the Stafford's catcher in the last game only preventing close contest then. Sat urday's game will awaken much interes among the friends of both clubs. Ths Stafford's have another benefit dance d
 Borough Hall on Saturday evening. Las weeks dance was well 'patronized, =
 W. N. Thompson and family, who have been for some months past with Mrs. T's. parents at Dixon, Ill, have returned to Pomona, Gal. -:..... ..~-ss..r s-.ssS
 MT. Cole, who has been most assidu ously working here for several past weeks on the history of Holland County, will be at the Springs House but few days longer, and those in this vicinity who de; sire to see him about the work must be- stir themselves. He will put several months more of labor on the book.
 Capt. Atkins, of the Salvation army. Rockville, will hold an open air meeting. noon, at o'clock, ,on MT. Grifithf grounds. Capt. and Ms. Hall and others will take part. Come and welcome. .-..,..-:,>. .g
 Mrs. Dr. H. Smith has returned from fortnight's stay at Nahtasket Beach. The doctor, who started for the same place, was taken with cholera morbus while stop ping at South Birmingham, and did not continue his journey. ~',sss s~
 The fastenings to hanging lamp at Mrs. SpauIding's dining rooms gave way last evening, and thelamp fell to the floor, broke and made savage looking blaze. Mrs. Spaulding's little girl, who was alone in the room at the time, gave vigorous alarm .and prompt and successful measures were taken to prevent any great damage by fire. Moral-look to your lamp hang ings. :
 Letters remaining in the office atStafs ford Springs, Sept. 15, 1887 Alfred Asselin, Mrs. Belle Brown, Joseph Barney, Frank Miss Ann D. Brady, Wm. Cham berland, H. J. Crooks, Thos. Cunningham, F. W. Coe, Mrs. I. H. Dudley, Nathaniel O'Donnen, J. Frederick, Hon., Chaa. S. Fuller, Miss Anna l.. Greaves, Mrs. Lucy Kempton, Miss Ada D. Kemp, Pierre La- salle, Wm H. Lathrop, Miss cCabe, Wm, H. MeDermott, John Mason, Miss H. Maine, Edward Roy, Hiram Snow, Mike Young. AFt-s @'S1' 5.'@ 5<f -.~
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 MT. Editor: A few weeks ago T. mo- ticed communication in The Press, stat ing that Marcus CoIburn, .forrnerlysof Staf- fordville, was dead. MT. Colburn and my self were classmates during seminary days Wishing to know the truth in the matter I wrote to California regarding the brother, and received from MT. Colburn long and letter in reference to himself aud his work.
 He informs me that he has never been in better health than now. ''Sun-broWned and strong for the duties of the hour" is the way he puts it. Mir. Colburn was ap, pointed presiding elder of the San Diego district in September, 1886, and, as the
 olo;lSES1s nd lNin ota ergy, a wonderful development of church work has been accomplished in the field of his labor. ~--< "s F The resident bishop speaks in glowing terms of his work and his years work as presiding elder is regarded as great suc- cess by his brethren in the ministry. The membership of the district has doubled during his administration. At the present date fourteen churches are in process of construction. 1# | A H n sssa # .
 Sixteen new fields have been entered, and last, but not least, he has gained con troI of the whole peninsula of Lower Cali fornia. ..e. E.. x. Fl K
 In this new field MT. Colburn has se- cured over $4OO, 600 worth of property as an endowment for Methodist school, of university grade. a ', .s
 MT. Colburn's district is over one thous- and miles ln length ds, in fact, the largest district in the Methodist Episcopal work exclusive of missions, and is the o1skBl dis trict under two governments. Myybrother tells me that Methodism is on the top in Southern California, and growing with great rapidity. The churches are crowd ed with people, and the conference with applicants to preach the gospel Mir. Col burn is enthusiastic over the developments of the county. 'sTrees grow fifteen feet per year" and social and religious infin- ences in the same ratio. VI aFas* V
 I. give The Press these notes in order that the town of Stafford may know how one of her boys has won renown and ac- complished success by patient continuance in we'll doing. Stafford may we'll be proud of the record of Marcus F.. Colburn.
 Truly yours, sE.. M. TAYnoR.
 BOROUGH COURT. R1sLEY, JUDGE.
 Napoleon and Louis Billets, aged respec- lively 13sand 8 years, went into the house of Dr.t P D. Smith and stole $8 from the ehildrens savings bank, beside other small articles. On Friday they. were brought before Judge Risley. Judgement was sus- pended until the 24th. On Monday As- sistant Judge Turner sent Robert Hamps- ton (the one known as little Rob) to jail for thirty days, for insulting lady on the street when he was drunk. ss
 Yesterday the Billets boys broke into the house of F. J. Chandler while the fam fly were away and stole revolver and